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Ten years have passed since Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane ever, struck the U.S. northeast, affecting 24 states across the entirety of the eastern seaboard.
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Burnt houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens, after it was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, October 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
An aerial view shows a house pushed into marshland in the Staten Island borough of New York, November 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
People try to open their garage on the floodwaters in Hoboken, New Jersey, October 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Water pushed up by Hurricane Sandy splashes into the window of a building in Bellport, New York, October 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A still running water pipe floods the foundation of a home in Oakwood, Staten Island, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A beach club damaged in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, November 2012. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
Houses surrounded by sand in near Ortley Beach, New Jersey, almost a month after the area was hit by Hurricane Sandy, November 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
The skyline of lower Manhattan, as seen from Exchange Place, in darkness except for the Goldman Sachs building after a preventive power outage caused by Hurricane Sandy, October 2012.
Victor Ocasio pauses to catch his breath as he walks up a darkened stairwell to his 15th floor apartment in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing without power in the Queens, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Eddie Liu uses a broom to clean up mud and water from extensive flooding in a laundromat in Coney Island, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Residents look over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section of New York, October 2012. REUTERS/Keith Bedford
Burned houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, Queens, October 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Amy Neukom works to remove sand in her parents house in the town of Mantoloking, New Jersey, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A woman weeps after learning that a neighbor presumed missing is okay while cleaning out her home in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Boats washed ashore piled next to a house near Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, October 2012. REUTERS/Steve Nesius
A sign hangs high on a telephone pole marking the waterline from Superstorm Sandy on Staten Island, October 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Contractors that have been hired locally work to clean sand out of a pool in Queens borough region of the Rockaways, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A woman covers her face in frustration while waiting for hours in line to get fuel outside at a gas station in Queen, November 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
An automobile is seen parked among homes damaged by a fire and the effects of Sandy in the Belle Harbor section of Queens, November 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Christine Cina poses for a portrait in what is left of her house in Staten Island, September 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
One man holds a ladder for another as he climbs to the second floor of a home that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, January 2013. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
An NYPD officer jumps over a chasm in the boardwalk caused by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy in the Brooklyn borough region of Belle Harbor in New York, November 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Burnt houses surrounded by houses that survived is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York, November 2012. REUTERS/NOAA
Streets damaged during Hurricane Sandy are seen in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, November 2012. REUTERS/Tim Larsen
President Obama hugs North Point Marina owner Donna Vanzant as he tours damage in Brigantine, New Jersey, October 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
Water-damaged furniture and belongings are piled high on sand along East Avenue in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, at Bay Head, New Jersey, November 2012. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
A new inlet that was cut across the barrier island of the New Jersey coastal town of Mantoloking, just north of where Hurricane Sandy made landfall in Ocean County, New Jersey, October 2012. REUTERS/NOAA
A girl looks out the back of a car window as the wreckage of boats washed ashore in Great Kills, Staten Island, are seen following Hurricane Sandy in New York, October 2012.
Burned houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens, after they were devastated by Hurricane Sandy, October 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
People walk past a beach club destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Sea Bright, New Jersey, October 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A roller coaster is seen in the ocean in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, November 2012. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
One of many homes badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy is pictured in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven, Connecticut, October 2012. REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin
Residents walk through the Breezy Point neighborhood which was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy in the New York borough of Queens, November 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Blythe Finn takes pictures after returning to see her home in Breezy Point, a month after the neighborhood was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy in the New York borough of Queens, November 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif